Author: Aine Corcoran

24th October 2012

Reminder: Rhetoric Parent/Teacher meetings will be held tomorrow starting from 3:30 p.m.

22nd October 2012

On Thursday the 18th of October transition year students went on a trip to Dublin to see what nano science was all about. They traveled in groups to different locations including the Science Gallery workshop where they made a complicated LED torch by soldering pieces together. After a meal at the trinity college canteen they headed of for a…read article

22nd October 2012

Pictured left to right Dr. Ann O’Meara, Dr. Michael McDermott, Dr. Kathryn McCreery, Peter Stapleton & Mr. Joe Quinsey C.E.O. Children’s Medical & Research Foundation, Crumlin Hospital. Congratulations to C.W.C. 2012 Duck Pushers who raised €70,000  for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin last year. On Friday past, the Poetry boys presented a cheque for the…read article

19th October 2012

At the end of last year when I was considering where to take the Third Years (Grammar Year) on retreat, I was thinking of all the magnificent places we have in Ireland. I thought it would be nice to expose the boys to some (or at least one) of these and so I started to…read article

18th October 2012

  Standing: Hugh Farrell, Eoghan Mcloughlin, Mr. Mason, Jack Savage, Mr. Heslin, Mrs. Heslin, Mr. O’Hara, Liam Lysaght, Daragh Corbett & Jack Galvin Seated: Conor Breslin, Colm O’Sullivan, Tim Burke & Ciaran Madden. Trad for Trócaire is a national event promoting the use of Irish music sessions as a means of raising money for Trocaire….read article

17th October 2012

Attention: Due to the recent volume of rain some pitches have been deemed unplayable. Please note the following. U 15 A&B  v  Blackrock goes ahead in C.W.C. U 15 C&D v Blackrock now switched to Blackrock Junior 1-2-3 v St Michaels OFF Senior 6&7 v Blackrock goes ahead U14 A-B-C-D V Newbridge OFF

16th October 2012

Team S6 Opposition Blackrock College Time 14.45pm Venue Blackrock  Pitch S7 Blackrock College 14.45pm Blackrock  Directions to Blackrock J1 J2 St. Michael’s College St. Michael’s College 14.45pm 14.45pm  St. Michael’s  St. Michael’s J3 St. Michael’s College 14.45pm  St. Michael’s  Directions to St. Michael’s 15A Blackrock College 14.30pm C.W.C. Hall 1 JP1 15B Blackrock College 14.30pm…read article

15th October 2012

Last Tuesday (October, 9th) nearly 170 Old Clongownians from 1942 to 2010 gathered in the RDS Concert Hall to hear Barry O’Callaghan (OC 1987) speak in the latest of the leadership events hosted by the Clongowes Wood College Foundation under the banner of ‘Becoming Men for Others’. Barry has over a decade of outstanding achievement…read article

12th October 2012

It’s Clongowes Wood College Induction Day. Welcome to our school.  

11th October 2012

Last Sunday, 36 Clongowes lads (2 Grammar, 11 Rudiments, 23 Elements) hopped on a 9am bus after Early Mass with their packed lunches aboard and headed west to Strandhill for a spot of surfing. Strandhill surf club gave 30 min dry shore lessons on the technique and the swell picked up right on cue for…read article